Fury as rapist conman who stole £2.5m jackpot from the National Lottery by forging a winning ticket is to get early release from prison after serving half of his nine-year jail term

Edward Putman, 58, was jailed for nine years for the scam he cooked up with Lottery insider Giles Knibbs, who worked in Camelot's fraud detection unit and made a fake ticket to secure the funds.